Update 9:00 a.m.: The winner of the men’s 5K race, Boca resident Josh Peterson, finished with an official time of 17:17 minutes. The team 5K walk has started.

Radio hosts Kevin Rolston, Virginia Sinicki, and Jason Pennington, from the KVJ show on station 97.9 WRMF, spoke to the crowd at the Meyer Amphitheater. Sinicki said her mom is a 4-year survivor. "If you take anything from today, make sure you're getting you annual checkups."

Update 8:15 a.m.: The winner of the women’s 5K, Delray Beach resident Stephanie Schappert, finished with an official time of 17:59 minutes. The men’s race has just started.

Original story: In the early morning hours, several hundred people prepped for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, an event that raises awareness for breast cancer.

Kaitlyn Martinez, a Palm Beach County resident, stood in front of the Meyer Amphitheater Saturday morning, adjusting the pink ribbon around the neck of her dog Rogue, a 1-year-old black lab mix.

She and her mother, Michelle, came early. They were there for a reason.

“We just have to find a cure,” Michelle said.

As the starting time for the men’s and women’s 5K races approached, runners stretched, a team of elementary school girls in pink tutus bounced on the sidewalk, and others walked around the courtyard in front of the amphitheater, eating and talking.

Michelle and Kaityln ran in the women’s 5K to remember Michelle’s best friend, who died from cancer.